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| 14915718334 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions. | 0 | |
| 14915720301 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 1 | |
| 14915724269 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event. | 2 | |
| 14915726447 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. | 3 | |
| 14915728689 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character. | 4 | |
| 14915731515 | Antithesis | Direct opposite. | 5 | |
| 14915737870 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order. | 6 | |
| 14915741614 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
| 14915744383 | Aside | A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage. | 8 | |
| 14915749343 | Bias | A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. | 9 | |
| 14915760516 | Colloquial Language | Informal language; language that is "conversational". | 10 | |
| 14915763348 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 11 | |
| 14915834283 | Direct Characterization | Author directly describes character. | 12 | |
| 14915792861 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 13 | |
| 14915768705 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word. | 14 | |
| 14915772682 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words. | 15 | |
| 14915778388 | Elegy | A sad or mournful poem. | 16 | |
| 14915782916 | Ethical Appeal | A method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility. | 17 | |
| 14915801137 | Emotional Appeal | When a writer appeals to readers' emotions (often through pathos) to excite and involve them in the argument. | 18 | |
| 14915813389 | Frame Story | A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story. | 19 | |
| 14915803827 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character. | 20 | |
| 14915822365 | Genres | A major category or type of literature. | 21 | |
| 14915807016 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 22 | |
| 14915841256 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 23 | |
| 14915844950 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 24 | |
| 14915848208 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). | 25 | |
| 14915855768 | Indirect Characterization | Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions. | 26 | |
| 14915861381 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts. | 27 | |
| 14915880925 | Logical Appeal | The use of sequence, analysis, organization, and evidence to prove a point and persuade. | 28 | |
| 14915889120 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 29 | |
| 14915893208 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as. | 30 | |
| 14915899232 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. | 31 | |
| 14915899233 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea. | 32 | |
| 14915907397 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. | 33 | |
| 14915920564 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. | 34 | |
| 14915924261 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 35 | |
| 14915928090 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 36 | |
| 14915931686 | Protagonist | The main character in a literary work. | 37 | |
| 14915935868 | Parenthesis | An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. | 38 | |
| 14915947148 | Rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer. | 39 | |
| 14915954129 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as". | 40 | |
| 14915958429 | Situational Irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 41 | |
| 14915971443 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 42 | |
| 14915974346 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 43 | |
| 14915978626 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 44 | |
| 14915986037 | Theme | The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. | 45 | |
| 14915988158 | Thesis | A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 46 | |
| 14915990231 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. | 47 | |
| 14915990232 | Topic Sentence | A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs. | 48 | |
| 14915996699 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. | 49 | |
| 14916001337 | 1st Person Point of View | The narrator is a character in the story. ( I, me, my, we, our ). | 50 | |
| 14916004288 | 3rd Person Limited Point of View | The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. | 51 | |
| 14916006501 | 3rd Person Omniscient | A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. | 52 |
